Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-04-06
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toned at Nosales. Arizona vi be favored with a large fruit harvest tbis year. Hundreds of Indians are dying at Yuma, with the measles. Prof. Fowler, the celebrated phrenol"- l cist. will lecture m Tucson next week, Amos, all the schools in Maricopa county have been closed for the season
 Resl estate transfers in Phenix are | .aid to be never less than $l5,OOO per day.
 In the matter of fertility the lands ol Salt r,ver valley are equal to any in the l world.
 Dr. Goodrich, member of the ,te terri- ! toriAl council, has gone east Co spend the summer.
 John K. Fsrrel, formerly of Tomb stone. is seeking an opportunity to settle down in Yuma.
 Alfalfa is being cut in Salt Riv'r and Gila valleys. and grain harvesting will shortly commence. Hon. ]. NJ. Farewell, of Tombstone, was married in Los Angeles last week .o Mi.s Lida Stanford. The Holbrook Critic Is not mashed on Representative Scott or Councilman Breed from that county. A religious paper is to he established at Pinal, in the interests of the M- E. Church. so says the Enterprise. Moses and his Tines,' was the sub- ject of . lecture delivered on "Wednesday night. by Judge Barnes, at Tucson. The saloon men of Tucson are organ i1ing to co operate with the Prescott movement to contest the lics nse law. Property is heinz assessed in Mari copa county the present year about 25 per cent above the valuation placed upon it in 1886.
 An attempt was made . few nights since to sssassinAte s Phenix policeman. l He was awake at the time, which probably saved his life The privilege of "free passes" will % | lost to about thirty citizens of Phenix through the enforcement of the inter state commerce bill. It is rumored that Hon. L. W. Blinn contemplates severing. at sn early day, his business connections in this territory and removing to California.
 J. M. Fisher, for the pas, two years conductor on the Arizona and New
 Mexico railroad, has tendere;! his resig- nation to the authorities oi the road.
 Captain Samuel J. Blair, of Wilcox. died at that place suddenly, on wednes- day evening. of apoplexy. He was s Canadian by birth, 47 years of age.
 Apache county eeenls to b, the most lawless county in the whole southwest,
 taking everything together that has
 transpiIed there the past tive years.
 The Prospector says that it Is rumored that one of our southern Arizona con-
 temporsries contemplates a removal oi its plant to Phenix ere many moons.
 Frank Hereford, formerly of Prescott,
 but more recently of the law firm oi
 Hereford & Lowell, Tucson, has formed
 law CO., partnership with T. L. Stiles, of
 Tucson.
 Santa Cruz valley, Pima county. will
 prove a valuable agricultural section ii | it's extent can be increased by the de.
 velopment of q sufficient supply o'
 water.
 | Bl.ckleg is said to be prevalent
 among the cattle of the Salt river valley lJ. L. Spain having lost five and Wm
 Gilson eight head from this cause during
 the past few days.
 The Florence canal enterprise is being
 pushed as fast as five hundred men can
 excavx.e. It will be completed to s
 point opposite Florence, and the water
 turned on, by the latter part ci May. | On next Monday the taxpayers o
 Phenix will be called on to vote upon
 the question of issuing city bonds, in the
 sum of $l5, 900. for the construction o
 city hall.
 CT. Hayden will cell out all his req
 estate about Tempe, at public auction {,
 the highest and best bidder. thus putting it in the hands of those who csn use i
 for business purposes.
 Il Treasure shipments hy Wells. Farg' k Go. from Phenix in March were ss fol lows: Currency. $91O5; gcld coin $7,335; silver coin. $47l CD; gold bullion $lO.7S5; silver bullion, $S.570. Total ss6, ,s66so.
 !! A reward of about $500 has beer
 offered by Wells. Fargo { Co. and th'
 Atlantic ( Pacific rxilroad for tn,
 capture of Red Murphy and the Browr boys. who broke jail and escaped iron | the sheriff custody m st. Johis.
 The Citizen says that Ret. Geo II Adams has been exhibiting the moon t' the Tor.hs.oners. They like its ap
 pesrance so we'll that q party will b organized to prospect it for silver an' , gold mines.
 The Tempe News says that grain sT
 pears to be doing we'll in that section ' though the mild weather hs broush | out the heads rather premstunly. Frui g i. blossoming out vel! and promises + fine yield.
 Q The past winter and present dr
 spring has been severe season fo
 .,ockmen and 1t has given the range y such & severe test of endurance an capability. that they have never befor e been put to.
 The Huston Bros, of Tonto Basir
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